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07 April 2012

Using Timelines

In my decendency research of the Lund family, I am currently focusing on Didrich and Karen's oldest daughter, Christine, and her family. I have collected a lot of documents and know a lot more now than I did before. But, I still have a few questions I need to answer before I can keep going.

What do I know so far?

Where are there holes in the timeline?

Are there records available to fill in the holes?

Where can I go from here?

I think that making a timeline will help me answer these questions. So, using my Roots Magic software, I selected Peder Jensen and his wife Christine Funk Lund and their children to create a timeline report and saved it as a word document. This document includes the citations, so I can refer to them as needed.

Christine's LDS baptism/confirmation -- I have four different dates for Christine's baptism. I need to see if I can find her in the Bornholm Branch records. Also, I'll need to take a look at what Family Search has. It would not be surprising to find that she was baptized while alive and then had the work done for her as well.

All the "blue" facts come from the FamilySearch Family Group Record sheet for Didrich, Christine's father.

1888 is the last time I have real, verified information for the Jensen family.

Where can I go from here?Besides looking up the records listed above in purple, I have some other ideas.

1890 Danish Census - Where are the Jensen's? Are they still in Denmark or have they immigrated?

Nylarsker Parish records - I will continue my search for future years to see if I can find death records for Peder and Christine as well as possible marriage records for their two sons.

I know from Jacob Peter's christening record that he immigrated to America ... perhaps I could find a passenger list for him? Or, maybe find him in a US Census.

Obviously, I'd like to find children for Laurits and Jacob. But, I need to know more! Onward!

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What is Lundology?

Why, its the study of the Lund's, of course! I am jumping in to researching our family history and seeing where it takes me. We are the Lund's. We come from Lund's, Ranson's, DeMacedo's, Lima's, Anderson's, Warner's, Ferreira's, Da Silva's and beyond! Since my own side of the family is from Brazil, it is quite difficult to track things down. Troy's side, on the other hand, has proven to be much easier. So, I'll be jumping back and forth and all around to learn about where we come from.

Are you related to us? I'd love to learn more about you and share what I know about our common ancestors!